# I never knew bison could get cold **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914 "2016-05-16T14:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914/41 "2016-05-19T14:10:17Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I grew up on a cattle farm and sometimes for no apparent reason a mother rejects her offspring. We bottle raised a couple like this: as far as I know the calves grew into healthy animals, but for whatever reason mom just decided she wanted to do something else. Probably something their spidey senses detect that we can’t, or perhaps the mother cow isn’t producing enough milk (very rarely a problem since many if not most modern cows are bred to overproduce milk), or perhaps some cows are just bitches sometimes. > > Dogs and cats reject as well, but usually you can see the difference (unformed leg or unhealthy runt or whatever). I also grew up working on a cattle ranch and we would see the abandonment mainly from heifers having their first calf. Typically, the cows that were onto their second calves didn’t abandon. A couple times we were able to get an abandoned calf to be taken in by another cow that had milk (some are very maternal) and once we had one taken in by a goat. No kidding. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914/42 "2016-05-19T14:31:11Z")
I’ve camped on Assateague Island a few times. There is a wild pony herd that roams freely. The park has/had a nonintervention policy. One time a foal was separated from the herd. Campers were freaking out, insisting that the foal had to be reunited with mom. I tried explaining the policy to people, but eventually someone hunted down an official who explained the official stance. There were some very vocal, unhappy campers. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914/43 "2016-05-19T14:39:10Z")
[QUOTE=wguy123] A couple times we were able to get an abandoned calf to be taken in by another cow that had milk (some are very maternal) and once we had one taken in by a goat. No kidding. 😃 [/QUOTE] Never saw that with cattle and goats, but I saw it with dogs and cats several times. ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914/44 "2016-05-19T18:49:44Z")
We had a husky bitch that rejected her whole litter (7 pups). 1 at a time. She killed one every day. The first couple, my dad was repeating the idea that she saw something wrong with them. When she killed the 4th one, I took the remaining 3 and raised them by hand. They were fine. She just didn’t want those pups. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914/45 "2022-06-01T21:22:12Z")
We fostered a cat who hissed at her kittens and batted them away when they tried to suckle. We helped them until they were weaned, They were fine. Mom just didn’t want kittens. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914/46 "2022-06-01T22:36:57Z")
heres the latest : > **[Woman Gored, Tossed 10-Feet in the Air by Bison in Yellowstone National Park](https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/woman-gored-tossed-10-feet-in-the-air-by-bison-in-yellowstone-national-park/ar-AAXXXcH?cvid=e270014c6c0a47f2a8937619373a7408)** > > A woman approached a bison to within 10 feet. It responded by goring her and tossing her 10 feet in the air, according to the Park Service. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914/47 "2022-06-02T03:41:45Z")
Current thread on this topic: > [@Tourist vs wild beef .... the beef usually wins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tourist-vs-wild-beef-the-beef-usually-wins/965529): > > in what’s becoming increasingly common a Yellowstone park visitor decided to get a closer than safe look at the bison … needless to say it ended in the usual manner [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-bison-could-get-cold/754914.md?page=2)